Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 103
Luo Shixin took off his mask and gloves, stuffed them in the side pocket next to the saddle, and asked the guards to take the horse away. He breathed warm air on his frozen hands, hoping to warm them up, and said, "If you slow down, you will freeze, Chen Is the general asleep?"

"Is he asleep if you don't come back?" Zhang Huaiwei said, "Quick, don't be in a daze, come in and warm up for a while!"

Gloves and masks were common things in later generations. However, since leaving the Great Sanguan Pass, many soldiers who were fighting with swords and shields were frostbitten. Chen Ying immediately thought of gloves.

It's just a pity that there is no cotton cloth in this era, and gloves made of linen are less effective in preventing cold, but once made of leather gloves, although they keep warm, they cannot keep fingers flexible.

After several experiments, Chen Ying decided to equip each soldier with two pairs of gloves, one pair of gloves made of two layers of fine linen, although such gloves are slightly inferior in terms of cold resistance.But it will not frostbite the fingers of the soldiers, nor will it affect the flexible movement of the fingers.

Whether it is the crossbowmen shooting arrows or holding spears, it has almost no effect.Gloves made of leather are mainly used for tasks that do not require flexible fingers, such as holding a shield, driving a snow sled, or sitting on a snow sled and marching.

In such cold weather, even the more cold-tolerant Turkic people could not open their bows smoothly on horseback. Even if they barely opened their bows, their hit rate was less than [-]% of the usual.

Luo Shixin was still wondering what was going on in Chen Ying's head, that he could even come up with such a good solution.Recently, he led the Yueqi regiment to confront the Turkic Rangers, and he took advantage mainly because of his gloves.

The fingers of the Turkic without gloves were almost frozen. Their reaction was more than half a beat longer than usual. Before they could draw their bows, Luo Shixin's cavalry had already rained arrows on their heads.When the Turkic people reacted, Luo Shixin turned around and ran away with Tang Junyue Cavalry Army.

In such cold weather, the physical exertion of a war horse is astonishing.The most important thing is that the frozen ice and snow surface will cause great damage to the horse's hoof, but Chen Ying has already nailed the horseshoe of the Yue cavalry army to the horseshoe, so there is no need to worry about these problems.

So the Turkic people couldn't fight and couldn't beat them, and couldn't catch up with them at all, so they could only vomit blood depressedly.

Liang Zan, who was standing beside Chen Ying, noticed that Chen Ying's superior aura was even heavier. Chen Ying was standing in the command vehicle in armor, and the generals standing below him trembled unconsciously. Speaking of this, the long march of less than a month is like passing the day like a year.

The [-]-mile journey every day, regardless of the weather, has almost exhausted the physical strength of the soldiers, but Chen Ying still trains twice in the morning and evening. If he does not train for half an hour, the queue will not be allowed to hurry.And the most excessive thing, as long as any group is hindered and cannot reach the camp within the stipulated time, the food of the whole group will be reduced by [-]%.

Gao Yunquan was the most inconceivable person. Under Chen Ying's harsh torture, the soldiers of the army never had any troubles despite their complaints.

The right guard led Chang Shi and Duan Lun, the captain-in-law Duan Lun, had caught cold when he just left Da San Pass, so Chen Ying allowed him to recuperate in Da San Pass.Marching all the way, Chen Ying used Zhang Huaiwei, Zhang Shigui, and Yin Yuan to train Xunyifu, Yiyifu and Yierfu, and adopted a harsh method to train troops while marching. The pain suffered by the entire army can be imagined.

But without Duan Lun, the captain-in-law, no one dared to confront Chen.There was a thunderous clatter of horseshoes, and Luo Shixin and Zhang Shigui came together.

"Report to the general, Luo Shixin and Zhang Shigui are back!"

"Let's not be busy for a while, each soldier of the Yueqi regiment will add four taels of meat (a quarter of a catty) and half a catty of wine!" Chen Ying said calmly.

"Thank you, Manager!"

The officers and soldiers of the Yue cavalry shouted excitedly.

After Luo Shixin's pale face turned rosy, he drank three bowls of broth.Chen Ying couldn't wait to look at Luo Shidao: "How about the north side?"

"very bad!"

Luo Shixin put down the bowl in his hand, took off his boots, and put his legs on the stove to roast them.Zhang Shigui put down the bowl depressedly, and said displeasedly: "You still don't let people eat, your feet haven't been washed for several years!"

Chen Ying had long been used to Luo Shixin's stinky feet, and he didn't feel uncomfortable in the slightest. "Have the Turks increased their troops?"

"Yes!" Luo Shi said, "After breaking three brothers, I finally touched Yezhu Ridge. Now there are at least [-] Turkic tents in Yezhu Ridge, including more than [-] large tents and nearly [-] small tents." !"

"Five hundred tents?" Chen Ying was startled when he heard this.

The small tents of the Turks are similar to those of the Tang army, with ten or twelve people as tents.The big tent is 12 or 50 people.There are thousands of accounts, and it is roughly estimated that there are 60 people.The information I got when I was in Chang'an was that there were only 1 Turkic cavalry stationed in Yezhuling, and now a few have doubled their strength.

If it is five thousand light cavalry, the right guard led by Chen Ying and sixteen regiments in four prefectures may not be incapable of fighting.But at this time, the disparity in strength is too great.

Chen Ying took a chance and asked: "Could it be that the Turkic people are playing tricks?"

"In this terrible weather, there is no fire in the tent, it's almost like an ice cellar!" Luo Shixin rubbed his feet dripping with yellow water, and said helplessly: "Thousands of these tents are all occupied by people. It’s lacking, and now it’s freezing cold, and every tent means a few lives, and the Turks don’t have the capital to bluff!”

Chen Ying thinks about it too. For ordinary herdsmen, a tent is the main property of the family. If they lose their tents, they will not be able to last even an hour in this kind of weather.

Luo Shidao: "The situation in Bogulu City has also been investigated clearly. The Turkic Shibi Khan Ashina Dujishi's younger brother is stationed there, and Yehu Ashinadurifu set up a department!"

The relaxed expression on Chen Ying's face was wiped away, and a solemn expression gradually appeared: "How many people are there in the Qilifu headquarters?"

"The exact number of people has not been found out!" Luo Shi said, "There are capable people under Qi Lifu's command, and Bogulu City cannot be approached at all, but the number of people watching the smoke rising from its cooking should not be less than 2! "

"2 people!" Chen Ying also felt dizzy when he heard the news.The number of Turkic soldiers in Yezhu Ridge and Bogulu City exceeds 3, which is six times the number of soldiers led by Youwei. I have a headache.

Although Chen Ying was already in a mess in his heart, he remained calm on the surface and slowly unfolded the map.Yezhu Ridge is located [-] miles northwest of Lingwu, and Bogulucheng Xianglu is more than [-] miles south of Lingwu, and the distance between them is more than [-] miles in a straight line.The ninety miles on the map would be more than a hundred miles in actual distance.

If the Turkic people in Yezhuling want to support Bugulu City, they can reach it in about an hour at most in Pingyang.But under the current weather conditions, it will take at least three hours.

Chen Ying suddenly said: "How many troops are there in Lingzhou now? How about the casualties? How many soldiers are still capable of fighting?"

(End of this chapter)